At this year’s Australian fashion week, three queer designers represent a move towards rave wear and ‘main character’ energy
‘Everyone’s embracing the destroyed look’: clothing by Melbourne designer Erik Yvon.They also credit the pandemic with their current sense of momentum. Higgins, who collaborated with Gogos in 2021, created his label during lockdown . Yvon has had his label since 2017, but noticed an uptick in interest since 2021’s long lockdowns. “We were all dragging,” he says. “It was really grim. My design, it’s all bright and bold and colourful … After Covid, I feel like people are a lot more receptive.
Fashion designer Alix Higgins in Sydney. His creations have found a home in the city’s queer nightlife scenes.Inspired by his Mauritian heritage, Yvon’s beaded handbags, crochet jumpers and mesh-camo dresses exude “main character” energy. When describing the ideal place to wear his clothing, he imagines Rihanna lounging on a boat in the Caribbean.
“Everyone’s embracing the destroyed look,” Yvon muses. “We were confined – so all the [design] students used their own resources, what was around them.” Higgins’s work literally and figuratively embraces the body with skin-tight nylon shirts and shorts. His designs feature bold text printed over bright, barcode stripes, making them easy to spot on a dancefloor. With lines of poetry and phrases taken from Higgins’s diaries – such as “fairy type” or “baby i’m so scared” – it looks like a nihilist meme account made flesh. It’s emotionally indulgent, which is why Higgins was surprised to learn his customers mostly feel sexy in his clothes.
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